From c76c22421875bbcbadd3c9fd4033981677aacfb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:56:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Man page for tep_read_number() Create man page for tep_read_number() libtraceevent API. Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20190503091119.23399-14-tstoyanov@vmware.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190510200108.042164597@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- .../libtraceevent-endian_read.txt | 78 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-endian_read.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-endian_read.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-endian_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e64851b6e189 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-endian_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_read_number - Reads a number from raw data. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +unsigned long long *tep_read_number*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, const void pass:[*]_ptr_, int _size_); +-- + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +The _tep_read_number()_ function reads an integer from raw data, taking into +account the endianness of the raw data and the current host. The _tep_ argument +is the trace event parser context. The _ptr_ is a pointer to the raw data, where +the integer is, and the _size_ is the size of the integer. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tep_read_number()_ function returns the integer in the byte order of +the current host. In case of an error, 0 is returned. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... +void process_record(struct tep_record *record) +{ + int offset = 24; + int data = tep_read_number(tep, record->data + offset, 4); + + /* Read the 4 bytes at the offset 24 of data as an integer */ +} +... +-- + +FILES +----- +[verse] +-- +*event-parse.h* + Header file to include in order to have access to the library APIs. +*-ltraceevent* + Linker switch to add when building a program that uses the library. +-- + +SEE ALSO +-------- +_libtraceevent(3)_, _trace-cmd(1)_ + +AUTHOR +------ +[verse] +-- +*Steven Rostedt* , author of *libtraceevent*. +*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* , author of this man page. +-- +REPORTING BUGS +-------------- +Report bugs to + +LICENSE +------- +libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 + +RESOURCES +--------- +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git -- 2.30.2